Win it: The Huckberry Eliminator

Here’s how this works: Each day we’ll eliminate an item until only one remains. Vote for the item you’d LEAST like to own at the bottom of the page. The item with the most votes gets ejected at the end of the day. The item that remains at the end of this battle royal will be won by one of you with an enter to win post firing off on Friday.

About Huckberry: It’s not easy to stand out in the world of flash sale websites, but Huckberry does it. With an emphasis on the outdoors and active lifestyle gear, they nail the upscale-rugged thing. Also, their sales are often littered with made in the USA goods. All of these items will have been available through Huckberry at some point. .

Made in San Francisco by a company that also makes custom shirts (those run $150 – $300+). This one is an off the rack model, but with a tailored fit, high armhole, and single needle construction with double stitched buttons and button holes, it’s one of those shirts that’ll blow away the rest of your collection. Black and white gingham with a spread collar. No pleats since the guys at Taylor Stitch want to make it as easy as possible for you to iron.

If an old dog-chewed NERF turbo is at one end of the spectrum, then this football sits on the complete opposite end. Functional art. Hand-made in the USA from amazing looking, rich leather from Prime Tannery in Maine. Made it into the Art of Manliness Father’s Day Huckberry shop.

Sharp, clean, and a legendary no nonsense design. Quartz movement, 150′ water resistance, and scratch resistant mineral glass. Braun watches and clocks were out of production for years, but they’ve started production once again. Was being offered on Huckberry pre-father’s day with different levels of thank-you credits with purchase. Luckily for all of us, they set one aside for someone to potentially win.

A brand new bike brand that launches next month, and they promise to deliver single speed bikes “with a component set that is ideal for riding around town”. Equipped with a flip-flop hub so you can ride it as fixed-gear, or, switch cogs and now your bike has a freewheel like a standard single speed. Nifty. Protek cranks, Sunrun freewheel, KMC chain, Wanda Tires, Well-Go pedals, and Promax brakes. $219 total cost with free shipping in the continental US. More proof here that black and brown (or cream) really can go together.

Here comes the tough part. Pick the item that you’d LEAST like to win and vote below to have it eliminated. One item gets cut every day. The item that’s left at the end of the week will be up for grabs and you’ll be able to enter to win on Friday. Make your case for what needs to go and/or what should stay in the comments. Voting closes at 11:59pm ET.

For me, the watch is ugly, the axe is too short to be useful for any volume of splitting, the football is cool & fun, I’d ride the shit out of that bike and the shirt would certainly get worn regularly.

Get rid of the axe and football. I live in the city so I wouldn’t use the axe. The football looks nice, and I’m sure it’s fun, but there are better ways to spend $120. I love Taylor Stitch clothing because it’s so durable, so yeah, keep the shirt on the list!

Let’s see…The shirt is nice, but my wardrobe is saturated with gingham.
I’m not a big football fan, so the football (or handegg) is unappealing.
I don’t really like the watch that much, it has a weird retro appliance vibe.
I live in a city, I don’t really need an axe. I guess it could be useful for camping or something.
I love bikes, but I already own two and one of them is in the middle of the kitchen because I live in a small apartment and don’t have a lot of storage space.

So yeah, I don’t know, I’m not particularly thrilled with this giveaway.

I’m hoping the bike makes it to the end (with the axe coming in a close second). The bike is very pretty and looks like it would be a great urban cruiser. Plus, a rider wearing a blazer would look more at home on this bike than one wearing lycra shorts. And that’s a huge plus for me.

I guess style is not synonymous with practicality – but these items are still surprisingly impractical. Not sure what I would do with the ax or the football if I won them, but I already own a billion watches and the Braun isn’t really my style, so I guess I’ll vote to eliminate that.

I thought the shirt was fairly ugly. The football is beautiful though. I bought a friend of mine a baseball from the leatherhead shop last year, and he loved it. That ax looks pretty great as well. The bike? Not so much. I don’t want a bike from some no-name startup company.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I don’t know what I would do with a $200 ax or a $120 football. I’ve already got a Lansky fireman’s ax for emergency situations and a wood-splitting maul for chopping firewood. As for football… I don’t play it, sorry. I’m more into solo sports like cycling and skiing than team sports like football.

A ‘fixie’ that was cobbled together out of the parts bin in a Chinese bike factory? An axe with stripes painted on that quadrupled its price? Doesn’t ‘best made’ sell foot-long pieces of rope for 100 dollars?

Dappered and its community have been invaluable to me in ensuring that I do not look like a douche, and in the interest of giving back I will advise that both of these products will guarantee that you look like a douche of either the ‘3 years too late to the fad’ or ‘shit curation artist’ variety.